Colombo and Esposito knock out Cagliari, Empoli flies to second place

Cagliari-Empoli 0-2

It's ended 0-2 the first advance of the fifth day of Serie A between Cagliari and Empoli. At the Unipol Domus, the hosts were defeated by the Tuscans thanks to goals by Lorenzo Colombo and Sebastiano Esposito.

The first chance for goal è for Cagliari on 19’: on the development of a corner, Vazquez misses the ’exit, but Esposito è superlative to anticipate header Deiola, who was already; ready to finish on net. At 33’ è Empoli to find the advantage with Colombo, who served in depth by Anjorin pierces Scuffet with a precise diagonal.

The resumption begins in the worst way for the hosts, as D'Aversa’s team immediately finds the double at 49': Esposito takes advantage of an empty intervention of Augello to finish toward the goal, but the red-bl'extreme defender; è è good at repelling. On the rebound, however, the former Inter è was good at evading the marking of the two island defenders and beating the Cagliari goalkeeper with a precise left-footed shot into the corner.

On 73’ came Cagliari’s response with Gaetano, who in an acrobatic move sent the ball just high over the crossbar. Five minutes later, Empoli also finds the third goal with Cacace, but the referee cancels everything for offside position. At 82’ è again the team of D’Aversa to go close to the tris with Esposito that from the limit of the’area does not find the mirror of the goal.

In the minutes of recovery, it takes Vazquez to put in the key the three points and the clean sheet thanks to a super intervention on Gaetano.

Thanks to this success, Empoli flies to second place with nine points, while Cagliari remains in second-to-last place with only two points.